疮
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sore; skin ulcer
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 疒 +4
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 瘡
- Common rank
- #2,025
- Unicode
- U+75AE
Sound it out + + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
sore · Heisig RSH #2669
sickness + 仓 storehouse
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 疮
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 全身性红斑狼疮 | systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) | |
| 红斑性狼疮 | lupus erythematosus | |
| 千疮百孔 | see 百孔千瘡|百孔千疮[bai3 kong3 qian1 chuang1] | |
| 百孔千疮 | heavily damaged; (fig.) full of holes; riddled with problems | |
| 红斑狼疮 | (medicine) lupus erythematosus | |
| 大疮 | syphilis; syphilitic ulcer | |
| 口疮 | mouth ulcer | |
| 疮口 | wound; open sore | |
| 好了疮疤忘了痛 | see 好了傷疤忘了疼|好了伤疤忘了疼[hao3 le5 shang1 ba1 wang4 le5 teng2] | |
| 挖肉补疮 | to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom); faced with a current crisis, to make it worse … | |
| 暗疮 | acne | |
| 狼疮 | lupus (skin disease) | |
| 天疱疮 | (medicine) pemphigus | |
| 冻疮 | frostbite; chilblains | |
| 满目疮痍 | a scene of devastation meets the eye everywhere one looks (idiom) | |
| 疮痍满目 | see 滿目瘡痍|满目疮痍[man3 mu4 chuang1 yi2] | |
| 疮痕 | scar; scarred skin | |
| 秃疮 | (dialect) favus of the scalp (skin disease) | |
| 挫疮 | acne; pustule | |
| 疮疤 | scar |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 仓 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 仓 sound part | granary, barn; cabin, berth | |
| 枪 | gun, rife; lance, spear | |
| 创 | to establish, to create; cut, wound, trauma | |
| 苍 | dark blue; deep green; old, hoary | |
| 抢 | urgent, rushed; to rob, to plunder | |
| 沧 | azure, cold, vast (all as of the sea) | |
| 呛 | choking, as by smoke; something that irritates the nose or throat | |
| 跄 | to stagger, to stumble | |
| 戗 | to support | |
| 怆 | sad, disconsolate, broken-hearted | |
| 鸧 | oriole | |
| 炝 | to stir-fry; to cook in sauce |